US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 7 for "LBT procedure for sidelink operations in unlicensed bands" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,451, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"LBT procedure for sidelink operations in unlicensed bands" was invented by Stelios Stefanatos (San Diego), Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego), Arthur Gubeskys (San Diego) and Parisa Cheraghi (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To facilitate efficient LBT sidelink sensing procedures, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided. An example method of a sidelink wireless device includes initiating an LBT sidelink sensing procedure including initiating an LBT timer to run for at least a minimum sensing duration in a channel. The example meth...